the manufacturers of morphine, propofol, and other drugs, such as the one used to euthanize pets, are European Union-based and have threatened to halt import of EVERY medication they make if one of them is used for an execution.

You’re right, I should rephrase. There’s no right way to kill someone, but torturing them for extended periods first because you’re incompetent seems not only morally wrong but also the wrong way to accomplish your stated and state-sanctioned goal.

Maybe this is a stupid comment, but I don’t understand why they don’t just give the condemned a massive dose of morphine. A doctor could easily determine a fatal dose and the unfortunate prisoner would fall unconscious quickly.

That’s the problem. There is no “right” way to kill someone.

Ugh, Method is like the handheld nuclear gun of acting tools: incredibly powerful but hardly anybody actually understands how to use it. It’s not physically torturing yourself or others and substituting that for a performance; it’s using one’s own experiences to help build the inner life of a character.

My theory on why Max Landis is such a piece of shit is because he saw his father be party to the death of a man and two young children and it didn’t affect dad’s directing career at all.

I remember a scene in Monster’s ball with Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton that is visceral, sad, and the most lonely looking sex I have ever seen depicted. The whole point of the scene was the grief of these two parents who had each recently lost a child, desperate for a connection and escape. The guy I saw it with…

Marina was the receptor (victim?) of any violence in her pieces, though, right. I don’t take issue with that. And I don’t take issue with making the audience uncomfortable, as sometimes that indeed is what’s necessary. Making unwilling parties part of your art, exploiting them- that’s where the problem comes in.

What I think of is Gone Girl. In one scene Ben Affleck’s character is supposed to wear a Yankees cap. Affleck doesn’t like the Yankees. He refused. Production shut down for four days while the director got on the phone with Affleck’s lawyers and agents and whatnot trying to get an actor to wear a hat. And that…

This is disgusting. I’m so sorry Schneider never got any kind of justice — or even got to see that she wasn’t alone, that people were horrified on her behalf — before she died.

Adding: She tells people what happened for years, no one pays attention. He speaks up and everyone finally listens.

There is a strange obsession from some film directors to get “real” emotions from their actors on set. Ridley Scott did it with the chestburster scene in Alien, Kubrick with Shelley Duvall on the set of The Shining, and clearly Bertolucci did it with this film. Now those first two examples are far less egregious than…

That’s the part that enrages and baffles me the most (aside from everything else, I honestly can’t decide). You literally hire actors to pretend to feel emotion. There is no reason to force them to actually feel it. There is no fucking reason to make a woman really feel like she’s going to get raped. Talk to her like…

How much more authentic John Snow getting stabbed would have been if he had really been stabbed!

If she objects in the moment, she’s called unprofessional and is still pressured into doing it.

I didn’t want Maria to act her humiliation, her rage. I wanted Maria to feel, not to act, the rage and humiliation.

These are kids; telling a trusted adult is not a “wasted step”, and it also allows her some accommodation from the school, so she doesn’t have to ride the same bus with him or whatnot. Give the girl a break- she did nothing wrong. No one can ever be a victim perfectly enough to meet everyone’s standards.

Good on the principal for doing the right thing. We’ve seen far too many similar situations result in the failure of a figure such as that to act, or to blame the victim. So that’s a plus we can take out of this.

Well, I can take joy in the pain of people who are regretting their votes because Donald is not building a wall/prosecuting Clinton. I really don’t have a lot of sympathy for those ones.

Oh most of them just think that the propaganda bullshit pictures are the truth- that babies are fully formed as soon as egg and sperm collide and they just get bigger as time goes by.